between the couteuding parties. The responsibility of the dealer 

 ends with furnishing an article corresponding in its composition with 

 the lowest stated quantity of each specilied essential constituent. 



It is of the first importance when buying fertilizers for home consump- 

 tion to consider their cost with reference to what they promise to famish . 

 The high priced fertilizers may prove in many instances cheaper than 

 the lower priced one — lohen judged from that standpoint. 



Our present laws for the regulation of the trade in commercial 

 fertilizers, include not only the various brands of compound fertil- 

 izers, but also all materials single or compound without reference to 

 source, used for manurial purposes when offered for sale in our 

 market. 



A large percentage of commercial manurial materials consists of 

 refuse matter from various industries. The composition of these 

 substances depends on the mode of manufacture carried on. The 

 rapid progress in our manufacturing industries is liable to affect at 

 any time, more or less seriously, the composition of the refuse. To 

 assist the farming community to a clear and intelligent appreciation 

 of the various substances sold for manurial purposes, a frequent 

 examination into the composition of agricultural chemicals and 

 refuse materials offered in our markets for manurial purposes is 

 constantly carried on at the laboratory of the station. 



On analysis of fertilizing materials at the station. — Arrangements 

 are made, as in previous years, to attend to the examination of 

 objects of general interest to the farming community, to the full 

 extent of existing resources. Requests for analyses of substances — 

 to be used for fertilizing purposes — coming through officers of agri- 

 cultural societies and farmers' clubs within the State, will receive 

 hereafter, as in the past, attention first, and in the order that appli- 

 cations arrive at the office of the station. The results will be returned 

 without charge for services rendered. Application of private 

 parties for analyses of substances, free of charge, will receive a 

 careful consideration, whenever the results promise to be of a more 

 general interest. For obvious reasons no work can be carried on at 

 the station, /ree of charge^ the results of which are not at the disposal 



